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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) announced today that Genentech Inc. has provided an educational grant to establish a research program to help determine how legislative and organizational protocols are impacting patient access to stroke treatment, as well as patient outcomes within the affected geographic areas.
The EMF Research Grant Program is offering applicants up to $100,000 for a one-year research project in health policy or health services research topics. Both review and awarding decisions will be made independent of the sponsor.
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.
Currently at the county, state and even regional level, systems of care are being developed which integrate stroke-enabled hospitals, primary stroke centers, and comprehensive stroke centers into a regional system, similar to trauma, to ensure optimal pre-hospital identification and triage to appropriate stroke facilities.
“The EMF Stroke Grant will enable qualified investigators to explore the impact of such systems of care on access to care and quality of care in various regionalized systems,” said Alan Jones, MD, FACEP, chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ scientific review subcommittee. “This type of grant places emergency medicine and EMF at the forefront of emergency care regionalization research and will provide valuable data on optimal systems and mechanisms of care.”
Applicant topics can include but are not limited to:
* changes in Joint Commission, HFAP, state departments of health or similar stroke center certification rates as a result of legislation;
* implementation and impact of EMS routing and triage protocols on patient arrival times, stroke hospital destinations and treatment rates;
* change in treatment rates of patients arriving at appropriate stroke centers and the effect on patient outcomes, including disability and death; and
* implementation of continuous quality improvement programs as it relates to national standards such as “Get With the Guidelines.”
The deadline for applications is February 1, 2011. Applications can be submitted online at www.emfoundation.org. Research should consider pre and post implementation data and a comparative discussion on the results in terms of the impact of legislation, rules and protocols on stroke patient care.
“Genentech continues to demonstrate its commitment to life-saving treatment of time-sensitive medical emergencies through the generous $100,000 contribution to EMF,” said Alex Rosenau, DO, FACEP, EMF chair. “This grant will help us to understand how to bring the best care to our stroke patients so that emergency medicine can continue to ensure our patients can depend on a strong and effective safety net.”
The strategic mission of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is to support emergency medicine research and education in order to improve patient care and practice. As the oldest national foundation organized for the specific purpose of funding research in emergency medicine, the Foundation’s work expands the body of knowledge that is paramount to the advancement of the specialty of emergency medicine.
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